Jordan Peele Quotes

The fun thing about Snapchat is really the surprise and the joy that comes from learning how to use it.

My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door to begin their own explorations.

It's not even my job to educate, but what I do is try to facilitate by creating a book that works on different levels. I do want to entertain and bring some joy to the reading experience. If it holds a little kernel of knowledge that readers choose to explore, well, that's great.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

It's misleading to suppose there's any basic difference between education & entertainment. This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking onto the matter.

To preach is very boring, and nobody wants free advice. But if it's entertainment, then this changes. If you explain something to a kid through an interesting story, he'll be hooked.

A storytelling device teaches. I hate to say it that way, because kids tune out. I don't teach on purpose, but I'm glad that it happens sometimes.

In other words, with games, learning is the drug.

I'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can.

When I go into schools to speak, I am not giving a speech - it's really a one-man show. I call it 'didactic standup.'

Games shouldn't only be fun. They should teach or spark an interest in other things.

I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get people to pay attention to a book and pick up information along the way.

You think about taking audiences on a journey.

I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never know where it's going to take you.

I would argue that education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you anything. The government doesn't teach you anything. You read it. You don't understand it; you read it again. You break a pencil and read it again.

When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.

What's so valuable about HBO is they tell stories. We learn from stories.

Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.

I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.

My goal in the classroom was always to make sure they were having so much fun that they didn't realize they were learning.

You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?

So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic.

Participation, I think, or one of the best methods of educating.

One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.